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	<title>In the Hibernian metropolis</title>
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		<title>The poet and the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 22:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in the Irish Times WHEN WE think of the poet in the city, we picture the flâneur : someone who is in the crowd, but observing it too; caught in the teeming metropolis, but not blind to what it means; able to divine images from the constant flux. The poet is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=102&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Booker, or why it should be JG Farrell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in The Irish Times In August in 1979, JG Farrell was fishing off the rocks near his home on Sheep’s Head, Co Cork, when he slipped, fell into the swell and was drowned. Certainly, death at the age of 44 left his talent unfulfilled, but even in the time he had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=98&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the nominees are (with occasional snarks): The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor. If only one of the characters had bought a mobile phone Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor Winterwood by Patrick McCabe. Can do better. Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle. Grinding poverty from the pen of Roddy Doyle: marvel at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=96&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Ryan report on child abuse in Catholic-run institutions was published last year, the Abbey Theatre’s director Fiach Mac Chongail and literary director Aideen Howard began discussing the idea of the theatre responding. They considered having the entire 2,700 pages of the report read publicly, but eventually settled on a short series, entitled The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=94&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s a Lady (Macbeth)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The malleable Macbeth has had many incarnations: a drug dealer, a Polish soldier, even a toy in on recent production. For Jimmy Fay’s production at the Abbey the “angle” is a psychological thriller, rooted in Ireland during Cromwell’s time. Such a historical context could add an intriguing resonance to Macbeth’s eventual isolation in an alien-seeming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=93&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Dunning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This interview first appeared in the Irish Examiner There’s much to relish, from an actors point of view at any rate, about Nick Dunning’s latest role: Vicomte de Valmont in Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses. “He is devious. He is manipulative. He is destructive. He is a control freak. He is a seducer. He is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=90&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barry McGovern</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This interview first appeared in the Irish Examiner Mention Philadelphia, Here I Come! and most people will automatically think of Brian Friel’s decision to split the lead character, Gareth O’Donnell, into Gar Public and Gar Private. Friel wasn’t the first playwright to use such a method, but he did put the device to the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=88&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lynne Parker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This interview first appeared in the Irish Examiner The lot of the theatre director is a varied one. Each new show is different, presenting its own challenges. But even allowing for that, Rough Magic director Lynne Parker’s next two shows are poles apart. First up is Sodome, My Love, a co-production with Emergency Room which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=86&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s day poetry massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in the Irish Times The western concept of romantic love is arguably the most influential idea in history. And it was just that: an idea, invented by poets in the south of France in the 11th century. According to the courtly love tradition, the troubadour is always a mixture of ardent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=84&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twill be Grand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in the Irish Examiner For some years now, Grand Canal Square, renovated and redesigned according to the plan of New York architect Martha Schwartz, has had a concrete red carpet leading from the water’s edge to a building site. But six weeks from now it will finally fulfill its function, welcoming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanoriordan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10286480&amp;post=82&amp;subd=alanoriordan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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